Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

I saw this conversation going on Twitter just recently about what it means to be meek.

Some women were throwing it around that it means this or it

means that and I'll never forget one time my mother who happens to be a quiet and soft-spoken woman.

She and I have very different personalities, but she said this one time and I'll never forget it.

Meekness does not mean weakness. What do you think about that? I'll tell you what I think,

and more importantly, what God says about it in a minute. In Matthew 5, in what was Jesus' famous sermon on the Mount, he says in verse 5,

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Other translations say this, blessed are the humble.

But what it doesn't say is, blessed are those with the most quiet voices, the shyest wallflowers

who sit over in the corner and don't say a single word, who are those blessed ones that

Jesus is going to bless with this big fat inheritance.

I think this is what I really used to believe, though, for the longest time, and it always

frustrated me a bit because I

truly believed it was something that I was automatically disqualified for due to my opinionated,

often big mouth. Tai Bay girls just couldn't be meek. Strong girls couldn't be meek. These are the

things I thought. And so I remember I had to teach on this concept one time

in a Bible study, and I was so sure that it was going to be a disaster because surely I couldn't

teach on something I was never going to be able to achieve. But the reality is that not only

is meekness, not weakness, it is actually a trait of great strength because meekness is really humility. And as we've

already talked about on here, that's something quite difficult for most of us to exercise in our life

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